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Post by Chris on Oct 12, 2020 14:12:28 GMT
Picked up a pair of AR 4XA at the car boot sale. £6. But scruffy but whatever
Took them home,worked fine! Sounded ok...
They had tape on the front though so tried to remove that and cut out a tweeter.
Said duck it and threw them in the bin. Lasted maybe 5\6 minutes.
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Post by edward on Oct 12, 2020 14:42:22 GMT
They can actually be very good when working ok. I've just given a pair away. But can quite understand throwing them away. The original tweeters are rare as hen's teeth.
Reminds me of my shortest lived car. Way back (80's) someone sold me a Cortina for about £25, Mechanic picked it and got it working, I drove it for less than 400 yards, immediately gave it to the mechanic and walked away.
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 12, 2020 14:56:15 GMT
But just imagine the pride of executive ownership Edward - this could have been you!  |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 12, 2020 14:57:59 GMT
Ah, the perfect box on wheels.
Crap when it was new, let alone now.
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 12, 2020 15:35:59 GMT
They had tape on the front though so tried to remove that and cut out a tweeter. Yeah....you don't want to be removing that tape! It covers the ultra fine wires that lead to the coil of the tweeter. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 12, 2020 19:17:18 GMT
Ouch
Pain you didn't get a longer term listen
Hey you lot !
I loved my 1.3 Cortina Mark 3
Mostly because it replaced the worst car in the world ever
Morris Marina - hated that car
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 12, 2020 19:24:17 GMT
I loved our Marina.
It was a coupe in dark red and the closest thing to a sports car we ever had!!
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Post by edward on Oct 12, 2020 19:41:50 GMT
But just imagine the pride of executive ownership Edward - this could have been you! It was a mk1 "ban the bomb" Cortina. Your picture is of the Mk3 which was then "state of the art". 
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 12, 2020 23:00:45 GMT
Good grief I could think of better things to do with 20k!!
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 13, 2020 9:32:16 GMT
Blimey
I remember the first one of them I saw.
Day before official launch - at school.
Headmaster was an Essex boy and must have had a contact in Dagenham
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Post by roy on Oct 15, 2020 19:46:15 GMT
But just imagine the pride of executive ownership Edward - this could have been you! It was a mk1 "ban the bomb" Cortina. Your picture is of the Mk3 which was then "state of the art". The picture's a Mk4, possibly in Jupiter Red |
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Post by edward on Oct 15, 2020 21:18:25 GMT
It was a mk1 "ban the bomb" Cortina. Your picture is of the Mk3 which was then "state of the art". The picture's a Mk4, possibly in Jupiter Red Ah well, what do I know. I only owned a Cortina for a few minutes.  Hope you doing ok Roy? Did you tilt the Tannoys? |
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Post by roy on Oct 15, 2020 21:31:02 GMT
The picture's a Mk4, possibly in Jupiter Red Ah well, what do I know. I only owned a Cortina for a few minutes. Hope you doing ok Roy? Did you tilt the Tannoys? I'm good thanks mate, yourself? Not tilted the tannoys yet, I did query the q acoustics in the bedroom though.. Can't blame not having enough time, that weighs kind of heavy, was calculating how much scotch I might need to disappear under a duvet with it till this lot's over. |
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